Button-making machine.



P. P. DUSHA, A. FEYK & J. KOMANCSEK.

BUTTON MAKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED-DEO.- 28, 1911.

Patented NOVA, 1913.

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APPLIGATION FILED DBO. ze, 1911.

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P. P. DUSHA, A. FEYK & J. KOMANCSEK. BUTTON MAKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 2s, 1911.

Patentd NOV. 4, 1913.

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P. F. DUSHA, A. PEYK & J. KOMANGSEK. BUTTON MAKING MACHINE.

ABPLIUATION FILED DEO. 28, 191 1.

Y Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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@wi/134149,00@ I #fray/f l P. F. DUSHA, A. FEYK & J. KOMANCSBK. BUTTON MAKING MACHINE.

I APPLICATION FILED DEG. 28, 1911. 1,077,337., Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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y BUTTON MAKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 28, 1911.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

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f Mm?! f f* ui'lmsmlwril P'UL F. BUSE, ANBGNF-EYK, ANB JOSEPE- KGMANGSEK, 0E NEW YORK, N'. Y.,

SSGNOESLTO HGLUB-DUSHA COMP normar;

specimen@ of Lester-gramas Application filed December 28;, 1911. I Serial No. 668,254.

To asZZ 'whomma concern; I y

Be it known we, PAUL F. DUSHA,

ANTON FBYK, and Joer-,rm Koimnosnx,

cilZ-ensof the; United States. residing at New York; in the county of* New York and State of New- York, have invented certain new and useful. rovements in Button7 Machin, o which the following is a sciicationh -his invention comprchends certainnew and improvements im machines for Ina-king buttons, and. relatesl particularly to improvementsin the machine embodied inour copending application for Letters Patent of the United- States7` No, 668,252, filed the 28th day of- December, 1911.

The. machine of the ap llication just mentioned lincludes, among otiier features, means whereby the same machine, regarded from a. commercial or trade standpoint, may be used for facing and drilling blanks with four thread receiving openings, and means whereby, after a certain adiiustment of the parts, buttons of the fish eye type may be formed, in which latter event the blanks are not-turned four successive quarter turns, one

. quarter turn after-,each drilling operation, but are turned twoquarter turns after theproved arrangement of drills,V

drillsmay be adjusted toward and from each fir-stV drillingoperationatud before a second drilling' operation, twoof the four drills embodied in the machine remaining inactive.` Theprcsent invention has, for its primary object. improved means whereby-, the removalef-tha four drills' of the machine .above mentioned, and the substitution therefor of an. attacinnent which forms. one of the mainfeatures of the present invention, the machine willbe equipped wth.- only two drills and with. means whereby, after the fish eye has been formed inthe blank, the latter may be quicldsy and accurately for-medwithy the twousual threadreceiving opens ings disposed in diametr-cal relation. to-each other'.

` The invention also has for object a: machineof this character ernlemiying` an. im-

whorehy said other te regulate the distance between. the two thread receiving. holes that are ,formedt-hcrcby', and without edf-.illstma or eilte-ling` in; alaywey the actuating mechanism of thedrills or otherv of machine And- ,the invention also ailes tao-'generally improve this class of devices and to, render them more useful and commercially desirable.

.Wit-h these. and other objects in View,l as wlll. more fully appear as the description pr'ocecds, the invention consists in certain constructions, arrangements and combina,- tlons of the parts that we shall hereinafter Q fullydescribe and claim.

For a full understanding ofY the inveng t1on,.reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure- 1 is a side elevation of' our machine arranged as hereinbef'ore indicated; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View of a portion of the machine,y the section being taken substantially on 4the line 2-2 of Fig. l ;v Fig. 3 iis a horiontal sectional view-taken substantially on the line 3-3 ofFig. l; Fig. 4 is a; rj vertical transverse section on the line 4 4 'of F ig. 3; Fig.` 5 is a detail perspective view of somo. of' the supporting devices for the grinder disk; Fig, 6 is an enlarged frag,- vmentary,` plan View of the drilling attach- 'Inent and subjacent portion of the chuck carrier; Fig. 7 is a vperspective view of-two. buttons of the for-m preferably made by the 8 is an enlarged side elevation of' the drilling attachment; Fig. 9 is a top plan view of the fish eye tool and its correlated parts; Fig. l0. is a side elevation thereof; and Fig. l1 is a detail view illustrating one of the shaping and facing the same.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to. in. the. following description and indicated in all the Views of the drawing by the Same reference characters.

The power to operate the machine may be supplied from any suitable source and is transmit-ted to the machine by a main shaft l provided with a clutch 2 and shipper lever 3 therefor, whereby it may be operatively connected to and disconnected from a shaft 4; carrying a spur pinion 5. The pinion 5 meshes with a spur pinion 6 secured to a pulley- 8, and' a driving belt 9 passes over the pulley .8'- md muldacorresponding pulley 10; on; a. countershaft 11. .The shaft 1l 1s provided with a worm 1-2 engaged by a wor-1n gear 13 on; ai vertically disposed spmdle 14,

said spindle carrying a pinion l5 which blanks and a portion ofthe grinder disk for-` Stub Shaft 7 on which is mounted a steppedratentea'isow. 4,1913; p

(present embodiment of the invention; Fig.

meshes withy an interiorly toothed ring 16` secured to a rotary chuck carrier 17.

Y 18 designates the blank holding chucks of the machine, of which there are twelve arventionis not limited to this or any number of chucks. The chucks 18are carried by vertically disposed rotatable spindles 19, the .lower ends of which are mounted on and supported by'vertically movable step bearings 20 provided at their lower ends with rollers 21l movable upon a circular cam track 22, whereby the chuck spindles and chucks may be raised automatically, as required, to bring the blanks carried by the chucks into operative relation to the fish eye forming and drilling tools.

ln order to vrotate the chuck spindles 19, each of them is provided with a' pulley 23., the said pulleys being arranged, during one portion of the circular traverse of the series of chucks, to engage the vcircumferentially extending stretch 024 of a driving belt 25, said belt passing around idlers 26 and 27, and also around a driving rpulley 28 secured to a vertically disposed shaft 29 journaled in the framework 30. 'lihe shaft 29 is driven by means of vmeshing beveled pinions 3 1, one of which is secured to'said shaft and the other of which is secured to the main drivlng shaft 1, as best illustrated in Figu 1.

While it is to be understood that the buttons'may be faced or shaped before being placed in the machine as arranged according to the present invention, it is primarily inftended that the present embodiment of the invention work upon the relatively less costly button blanks, and that the buttons be faced (ir-shaped by grinding instead of facing tools such as disclosed in our copending application hereinbefore specifically referred to. To this end, we employ a grinder disk-32, which is secured to the lower end of avert-ically disposed shaft 33 mounted to rotate in a bracket 34. This bracket is mounted for a vertical movement on the front face of a supporting and guiding member 35 and is vertically adjusted, in order'to bring the disk 32 at the proper elevation for working on the blanks in the chucks, by means of a threaded adjusting rod 36, which is journaled in a boss or bearing 37 forming part of the bracket 34, and which works through an opening formed in the front portion of the supporting member 35. The member 35 is secured for a horizontal' adjusting movement on a vertical portion of the main framework 30,'as best illustratedv in Figs. 1 and 2, the said horizontal adjustment of the member 35 and the disk 32 which is indirectly supported thereby, being eected by means of a rod 38 which is lnally adjustable shaft 51 securedtothe member 35 and to a slide 39 supported by angular bracket 40. The slide 39 is adjusted longitudinally on the bracket 40 by means of a screw rod 38 manipulated by a hand wheel 41. In order to rotate the disk 32, the shaft 33 thereof carries a pulley l 42 around which a driving belt 43 passes,

said belt also passing around idlers 44 and.

around a main driving wheel 45 secured to the main driving shaft 1, as clearly illustratedl in Fig. l.. The facing grinder 32 is located substantially centrally above the main driving shaft 1, and it will thus be the blanks are fed into the chucks 18, as by an automatic feeding device 46 forming the subject-matter of another copending application, filed the 25th day of November, 1911; Serial No. 662,495, carried around in the chucks as the chuck carrier 17 revolves about its center axis, and the chucks will be rotated and will bel successively brought into engagement with the facing or shaping rotating in a direction reverse to the rotation ofthe chucks, and the blanks being 'thereby properly faced or shaped.

understood that after said blanks will be'- i grinder 32, the latter also i ln the continued revoluble movement of the chuck carrier 17, the pulleys 23 will pass out of operative engagement with the stretch 24 ,of the driving belt 25 immediately after leaving the idler 27, and yat this time spring latches 47 carried by the chuck carrier 17V will be permitted to be automatically brought by their springs 48 into engagement with keepe blocks 49 secured to and movable with the spindles 19, whereupon the chucks will be broughtito a standstill as regards Y their independent rotary movement, and will, in the continued revoluble movement of the carrier 17, be brought undera fish eye forming tool 50, at which time the rollers 21 will vride upon a relatively high portion of the cam track 22 so as to bring the blanks in the chucks up into engagement with the tool 50 so as to perform the operation of forming the fish eye in the blank.

rlhe fish eye tool 50 is secured to the inner fend of a radially disposed longitudi-A I which is mounted in bearings 52 and which is provided with a'pulley 53 around which a driving belt 54 passes, said belty also passing around idlers 55 (see Fig. 1) and around a driving pulley 56 secured to the upper end of the shaft 29 before mentioned. lByI this means, the fish eye forming tool 50 is continuously rotated.

The bearings 52 for the tool supporting shaft 51 are formed on the upper end of a vertically disposed supporting -arm' 57 mounted for a vertically adjustable movement on the depending vertical portion 58 of an angular bracket- 59 which is secured by stud bolts or similar fastening devices, to an arm 60 which projects upwardly from a immer ,eastingf61-1 movable independently of the chuck"carrier17 and mounted to oscillate in a' horizontal plane about the same vertical axis about which the chuck carrier 17 i is; mountedo turn'. In order to secure the tion of the chuck car-rier 17 at the rim thereof. :The casting 61 is also provided, in addition to the arm 60, with an arm 'which in the present embodiment of the invention is extended radially in right angular relation to the arm 60, thelsaid arm 65-sup.

porting and carrying the drilling attach- .f

ment of the machine arranged to form two diametrically opposite thread receiving holes in the blanks after they have been acted upon'by the fish eye forming tool 50. Said attachment includes a horizontally disposed supporting bracket 66.rest-irfg upon the arm 65 and secured thereto by stud bolts 67 or similar fastening devices, said bracket being provided with a downwardly projectingpouter end 68 'havin guiding rollers 69 engaging the upper-an lower facesof the chuck carrier 17 in a manner similar to the guiding rollers 64 before -m-entioned. Supported upon the bracket 66 are horizontally disposed arms 70, two in number, pivotally` mounted atl their inner ends upon a pivot stud 71, projecting upwardly from the bracket 66v at the inner end of the latter. Each of these arms 70; carries a tool holder 72, inwhich a vertically disposed shaft 73 is journaledto rotate about its longitudinal axis, and each. of said shafts carries at its lower end a drilling tool 74. The shafts 7 3 are' vrotated by means of pulleys 75.1Secured thereto, a driving cable *Z6-passing around said pulleys and around an idler 77 mounted onthe post 78 rising from ythe bracket 66, said st being provided with divcrging. armsgg carrying idlers 80 around which the outermost stretches of the belt or cable 76 pass, whence said stretches extend around idlers 81 supported lby the framework 30, as best illustrated in Fig. 1. The cable 76 receives its motion from the same driving pulley 56. which runsk the Abelt '54 that drives the tish eye forming, tool 50. It is one of the objectsof our present invention, as set forth at the outset of the specification to. provide means whereby the vdrilling tools 74:- may be adjusted to vary the distance between them, and consequently vary, 'as required, the distance between the thread receiving holes formed in the fish eye of the blank. To accomplish this, the arms 79 are pivotally mounted at their inner ends,

as at 71, and each arm is provided with a threaded lug 82, said `,lugs lbeing inte-riorly threaded in opposite directions for engagement by the right and left hand threads of an adjusting spindle 88. provided with a milled linger piece 84, and

carriesa ratchet 85 engaged by a spring This spindle is i e pawl 86 secured to one of the arms 70 whereby, when the said spindle is turned and the required adjust-ment effected ybetween the larms 70, the desired adjustment may be t maintained and all accidental avoided. To accommodate these movements of the arms 70, as regards the fastening de" vices 67, each arm is formed with a slot 87,

as best illustrated in Fig. 6. If desired, each arm may be further formed with an outer slot '88, accommodating a guiding stud 89 project-ing upwardly from the bracket 66.

The mahine is so designed that the iish eye forming tool 50 and the drills '74 will be carried along with the chuck carrier 17 a predetermined distance, Aand `at the same shifting ed in a hollow boss 93 formed lon the bracket o signed for intermittent' engagement' by a series of pins 9-5 projecting radially outward from the edge of the chuck carrier 17. As the chuck carrier revolves, the hookedlatch 91 will be engaged by one pf the pins 95, whereby the arms 60 and 65 will be carried forward with the .chuck carrier 17 and at the same rate of speed, while during such move ment the chucks will be raised upwardly and one blank will be operated upon by thefish eye forming tool 50 while the next preceding blank will be operated .uponby one of the drills 74 to have its rst thread vreceiving' hole formed therein, and at the same time the blank inadvance of the last named blank will beoperated upon by the other drilling tool tohave the second thread receiving hole formed therein. Y

When these operations of forming a fish eye blank andv drilling two preceding blanks in the series have beencompleted, the vfish eye forming tool and the drillingI tools are ,automatically moved back one' step to catch up with the succeeding blank, the reverse movement being very muchI quicker than the advancing movement described, and being accomplished by the followingl instrw mentalities: A supporting bracket 96 has secured toits outer end an upwardly prof IOO ' thereby,

jecting post 97 to the upper end of which there is secured an inwardly extending arm 98 to which a lever 99 is pivotally connected intermediate of its ends, as at 100. The inwardly projecting arm of said lever 99 carries a roller 101, and a link rod 102 is connected to the outer. and longer arm of said lever, said link rod being also Aadjustably connected as at 103 to a bar 104: ymounted on the stud 90. As the latch 91, engaged by one of the pins 95, comes into engagement with the roller 101, said, roller will pass back of the beveled extremity 94 of said latch and disengage the latterl from the pin, and immediately thereafter the roller will be struck by the pin and the lever 99 will be rocked in a direction whereby, owing to the length of the outwardly projecting arm of said lever relative to the inner arm thereof, the arms 60 and 65 will be quickly brought back to their initial positions readyv for the succeeding operation and movement forward with the table or chuck carrier 17, when the latch 91 is engaged bythe oncoming pin.'

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation of this embodiment or our improved button forming machine willbe apparent, the detail operation of' the various elements being described coincident with their construction and relative arrangement. l,E-iutiice it to say, that in the practical use of. the machine, the blanks to be worked upon will be fed into the chucks and carried while the chucks are rotating, underneath the rotating grinder 32, whereby the blanks will befaced or shaped, and subsequently, chuck carrier 17, the blanks will be brought successively underneath the fish eye forming tool. As a blank reaches the fish eye forming tool 50, it is caused to engage therewith and the tool moves forwardly with the blank while the tool is rotating to form the fish eye. At the completion of such operation, the fish eye tool moves back to its original position, while the blank continues to move in the same direction in the chuck, thus -bringing it beneath the first drilling tool. The next succeeding blankin the series will be acted upon by the sh eye for-ming tool while the blank first mentioned will have its first button receiving hole drilled therein, and in the next succeeding turn will-reach the second of the drilling tools 74 and have the second thread receiving vhole formed therein. ln order to vary the distance 'between the two button receiving openings, the arms are made adjustable, whereby the vtool holders 72 may be spread apart or brought nearer together by manipulating the adjusting spindle drawings dis- Nhile the accompanying close what we believe to be the preferred in the continued revolution of the- Lomas? embodiment of our invention, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited thereto, but that various changes may be made in the construction, arrangement and proportions of the parts within the scope of the claims.

Having thus described. our invention, what is claimed is 1. A button forming machine including a movable chuck carrier, button chucks car-V lried thereby, a tool carrier movable with the chuck carrier for a predetermined distance and including diverging arms having a common pivot, means for adjusting said arms" with relation to each other to change their angular distance, and tools mounted, one upon each ofthe arms and adjustable with said arms toward and from each other. 2.' A button forming machine including a movable chuck carrier, chucks carried thereby, an arm mounted for movement independent of' the chuck carrier, a fish-eye formi-ng tool mounted upon said arm, a second arm movable with the first arm but eX- tending angularly therefrom, and comprising sections having a common pivotJ and means for adjusting said sections with relation to each other to change their angular distance, drills mounted, one upon each section and adjustable with the sections toward and from each other, and means for moving said arms with the chuck carrier for a predetermined period and for subsequently returning said arms to their initial position.

3. A button forming machine, including a movable chuck carrier, chucks carried thereby, a movable arm, a bracket secured to said arm, arms pivotally mounted upon a common center and carried by said bracket, means for adjusting said last'named arms toward and away from each other, drills carried by said last named arms, and means for. automatically moving the rst named arm with the chuck carrier for a predetermined distance and for subsequently returning said arms to its initial position.

1. A button forming machine, including a movable chuck carrier, chucks carried thereby, an arm movable with the chuck carrier for a predetermined distance and subsequently automatically movable in the opposite direction independently of the chuck carrier, a bracket secured to said arm, pivoted arms mounted on Said bracket, tool holders carried by said last named arms, the said arms being formed with apertured lugs, and a llt@ 1 carrier and said tool support, and means Aacing said' tool supportin a direction reverse mined distance.

- the tool supporting member, a iixed arm yrier after the button .carrierand toolsupa movable button carrier having outwardly ton carrier to cause a simultaneous move-l ment in .the same direction of the" button tuated by the button carrier for shifting said tool supporting member in .a ldirection reverse to the movement ofthe button carporting member have lmoved together for a' predetermined distance.

6.' A button forming machine including a rotatable button carrier a rotatable tool supporting member independently mounted upon the same axial center as the button carrier and movable in a `parallel path to the carrier, means mounted on the button l carrier adapted to operatively engage the tool holder to cause a simultaneousmovement in the same direction of the tool holder and tool carrier, and means disposed in the path of movement of the means on 'the car# rier for disengaging the' tool supporting member from the button carrier and shiftto the movement of the button carrier after the button carrier and tool supporting member have moved together for a predeter- 7. A button forming machine including a movable button carrier, a tool supporting member movable in a parallel path to the button carrier, a latch carried by the tool supporting member and adapted to engage the button carrier to cause a corresponding movement of the tool supporting member and the carrier in one direction, and means for disengaging said latch and returning the toolsuppo-rting member to its initial position after the button carrier and tool supporting member'have moved together a pre-1* determined distance.

8. A button forming machine including projecting spaced lugs,'a tool supporting member movable in a parallel path tothe button carrier, a catch on the tool 'supporting member adapted to engage one of said projections, a pivoted tripping member mounted in the .path of lmovement of "the catch and saidl projection, said tripping member being operatively engaged with the tool supporting member, whereby said ltripping member will engage the catch to disengage it from the lug, andwill be engaged by the lugand rotated thereby' to cause a reverse movement of the tool supporting member.

9. A button forming machine including a rotatable button carrier, a tool supporting member mounted for rotation ina parallel path to the'carrier, a lug projecting from the carrier, a catch mounted upon the tool support-ing member and adapted to engage over the lug, al pivoted arm projecting from mounted adjacent to the periphery of the vsupporting Y 'mounted adjacent to the periphery of the tremity of ,the .catch to release thesame from itsl engagement with the lug and to be .engaged by Said lug and thereby rotated upon its pivot, and a link connecting .the outer end of said lever with thel outer eind of the v first named arm. 4

1o. A button forming machine inem-amg a `rotatable button ,carrier,.atool supporting varm mounted upon the same a-Xis as the carrier and extending beyondI the same, a plurality ofspaced lugs projecting LAfromthe periphery of the carrier, a hook-shaped and adapted to engage anyone of said lugs and having a beveled extremity, an arm latch mounted upon the tool supporting arm v pivoted upon and projecting from thetool member, a lever pivotally carrier, the innervend of thelever lying in the path of movement of the beveled end of the catch and of said lug, the` other end7 of the lever having a link connection with the said pivoted arm, whereby the catchshall be lifted from its Vengagement withfthe arm upon coming in contact with said lever, and

a lug adapted to engage said lever to rotate the same to shift the tool supporting memvber rearwardly.

` 11. A button forming machine including a rotatable button carrier', a tool supporting member movable in a vparallel path to the button carrier, means mounted on the tool -supporting member and' adapted to engage the vcarrier to cause a simultaneous movement of the carrier and the supporting member, and means operated by thecarrier for releasing said engagement after the carrier and tool supporting member have moved a predetermined distance, said means i also acting to return thetool vsupporting /member `to its original position.

12. In a button forming machine, a rotatable carrier, a' tool supporting member mounted upon the same axis as the carrier but independently rotatable with relation to the carrier, ,Oppositely disposed wheels mounted upon the tool supporting member and engaging the upper and lower faces of the carrier, and means-for movin the tool supporting member a predetermined distance with the carrier and `tor returning the tool supporting member to its original position. f 1 v 13. A button forming machine including in its organization a yrotatable button carf rier, an armv mounted upon the same axis as the carrier but independently rotatable,

' means for shifting the arm in coincidence with the carrier for a predetermined 'dis' tance and then returning the arm to its initial position, Adiverging members pivoted upon said arm and orming a part thereof,

. one on each kmember and vincluding ver# tieally disposed spindles, pulleysV one for means for-adjusting said members toward and from each other, tool carriers mounted each spindle, apulley disposed at the meeting point of said members and mounted for horizontal rotation, a pairl` of pulleys mounted inward of the last named pulley and disposed in horizontally diverging planes, and an endless belt passing aroun named pulleys inward and around the seel ond named pulley and Low-Les? beneath the last gained pulleys, and driving means for said ln testimony whereof We allx our signal15 tures in presence of t-Wo'witnesses.

PAUL F. DUSHA. [Ls] ANTON FEYK. [L s] JUSEPH KOMANCSEK. [Ls] Witnesses:

Y Vsomxn LOUMISKEY,

FRANK Seven. 

